könyörög

== Hungarian == === Etymology === From *könyör (“to ask someone; to feel pity for someone”) + -ög (frequentative suffix). === Pronunciation === IPA(key): [ˈkøɲørøɡ] Hyphenation: kö‧nyö‧rög Rhymes: -øɡ === Verb === könyörög (intransitive) to beg, to implore, to supplicate (to a deity: -hoz/-hez/-höz, to a person: -nak/-nek) ==== Usage notes ==== The verb form könyörgöm (“I beg of you”) also exists as a hypercorrection of könyörgök, and even though it is proscribed by most language authorities as grammatically incorrect, in actual usage it is heard more often than the correct form, to the point where some linguists now advocate in favor of it. ==== Conjugation ==== ==== Derived terms ==== (With verbal prefixes): === References === === Further reading === könyörög in Géza Bárczi, László Országh, et al., editors, A magyar nyelv értelmező szótára [The Explanatory Dictionary of the Hungarian Language] (ÉrtSz.), Budapest: Akadémiai Kiadó, 1959–1962. Fifth ed., 1992: →ISBN.